Consciousness opens a major can of worms and has religious issues. And a God could be an emergence from the complex system of distributed consciousness of multi-agent intelligent lifeforms (figure I'd throw that out there).
But avoiding consciousness and keeping intelligent agents unawares of themselves avoids all that extra bullsh*t. And certainly there are many uses for engineered conscious entities . but maximizing both consciousness and intelligence in an agent may be unnecessarily complicated to build. John From: Steve Richfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/29/08, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can the two terms be equivalent? Some may think that they are inseparable, or that one cannot exist without the other, I can understand that perspective. But there is a quantitative relationship between the two. When you get into strict definitions people get alienated... because this is fundamentally a religious issue. Consciousness brings with it a certain linearity of thought process along with a certain lack of rigor. However, we don't want to even think about "thought" processes that may be vastly superior to our own, and which may not even involve consciousness. God and Santa Clause are believed at once to think like us, yet be able to do things (like simultaneously tracking everyone in the world's activities) that are fundamentally incompatible with our own thought processes. EVERYONE is religiously programmed to some extent, and IMHO this is creeping into AGI discussions here. I had little clue about this until I got a project in Saudi Arabia, where they have a somewhat different collective programming. Not only did I have to learn their programming, but I also had to learn to recognize some of my own. I suspect that the two goals of conscious computing and super intelligence are mutually incompatible. Steve Richfield ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
